/ Gov. Ron DeSantis stood at a podium in the Everglades Tuesday, March 30, his back to an excavator that scraped up mounds of the old roadbed that, for the last 90 years, was the Old Tamiami Trail. Gov. Ron DeSantis and Democratic gubernatorial candidate Nikki Fried made appearances Tuesday along the Gulf Coast, offering competing views about an ongoing toxic red-tide outbreak. Earlier in the day, DeSantis was in Miami to announce the removal of the Old Tamiami Trail roadbed, a project that was completed six months ahead of schedule. TALLAHASSEE --- Gov. Ron DeSantis and Democratic gubernatorial candidate Nikki Fried made appearances Tuesday along the Gulf Coast, offering competing views about an ongoing toxic red-tide outbreak.